The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance. — Excerpted from The Call of Cthulhu on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.these are the first three pages of the book being read. The other pages will be posted on archive.org when done